The TXF Dealmakers Assembly is a new and exciting conference taking place in Berlin on 26-27 October. Join us in this revamped format which puts networking and dealmaking...

Beyond the horrors and dreadful tragedies of the war in Ukraine there will be extreme economic fallout in the trade and investment space for many years to come. The...

The plethora of pledges emerging apace from COP26 are expected to spur a spate of emerging market corporate issuance in the capital markets. But with green finance taking...

ECAs upped their support for big-ticket project financings in Africa last year. And there is room for significant export finance growth with a pipeline of projects set to...

Kernel signed a tightly priced $390 million PXF last month – a rare example of a Ukrainian corporate taking the structured trade finance route in 2019. And despite the...

Katharine Morton ponders the opacities of financing trade, and what lies beneath, revealed at ITFA’s celebration of a mysterious dance of hide and seek

OECD exporters and ECAs often cite the need to modernise the OECD Consensus on export credits. The International Working Group on Export Credits (IWG) is making progress...

China is hosting the world’s first international import expo. Jonathan Bell examines the development in what could be the start of a new era of trade focus for the...

Over the past 12 months Ukrainian commodity-linked borrowers have made a comeback in the international debt markets – driving down margins and extending tenors. But it...

Singapore’s Clifford Capital has closed its first securitisation, and is preparing a second, in a bid to establish an infrastructure CLO franchise. Backed by loans from...

Ukrainian corporates have had a tough time of it since 2014 when Crimea was annexed by Russia. However, just three years later the better names in Ukraine are returning...

Amid an uncertain political and economic landscape in Ukraine syndicated debt offerings have been few and far between. Ferrexpo’s decision to tap the PXF market indicates...

Kernel improved pricing on its annual PXF in 2016 but did not find appetite for upping the tenor. Having done the groundwork in 2016, and following a successful five-year...

Indonesian agri-industrial conglomerate Royal Industries (RI) is asking lenders for another 19 years to repay a five-year working capital loan signed in 2014.

Ukraine-based sunflower oil producer and exporter Kernel has successfully debuted in the international bond market, a measure of growing lender confidence in the...

In a triumph for Bangladeshi project financing, agencies and private companies have come together to secure the financing for the Sirajganj BOOT power project, which will...

The latest studies and publications are now talking about the digital revolution in foreign trade. In an age where payment transactions, cash management and treasury are...

TXF’s Hesham Zakai ventures into the brave – but not so new – world of supply chain finance vendors and their respective offerings.

Ukraine’s major Ukrainian sunflower oil producer and exporter Industrial Group ViOil (ViOil) has secured a $40 million pre-financing through Dutch bank ING and the...

Ukraine’s leading vertically integrated agribusiness company Kernel has signed a $65 million syndicated working capital credit facility with a group of European...